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It is made of dacite, a fine-grained volcanic rock that contains a sprinkling of larger, visible crystals, like chopped fruit in a cake.

Actually, the present lava dome at Mount St Helens is the third dome to form since the 1980 eruption, the previous two having been blasted away by the subsequent eruptions.

He is 69 and hard of hearing, but when he gets rolling in the booming cadences of the nondenominational minister he was until 1999, the years fall away and the words tumble out with the message he has committed his retirement to bringing forth.

Which is: The Earth is only a few thousand years old, and what happened here in 1980 proves it. Anderson and his wife, Doris, are the founders of the Mount St.

Young-earth creation geologists have long held that most sedimentary strata resulted from waterborne deposits during Noah’s Flood.

The resulting rock strata may harbor fossils from a particular habitat area or ecosystem, but do not represent a particular age or era.

Lloyd Anderson, far right, takes home-schooled children on a tour of the land around Mount St.

The current dome started growing after the volcano’s last explosive eruption on 17 October 1980.

During 17 so-called dome-building eruptions, from 18 October 1980 to 26 October 1986, thick pasty lava oozed out of the volcanic vent like toothpaste from a tube.1 Dacite lava is too thick to flow very far, so it simply piled up around the vent, forming the mountain-like dome, which now plugs the volcanic orifice.